Category: research

  • Paper review: Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care

    On Reddit I am, when I express my disappointment with the state of research on “gender-affirming” treatments for adolescents with gender dysphoria, at times given long lists of studies that purport to demonstrate the effectiveness of puberty blockers (PBs) and “gender-affirming” hormones (GAHs). These lists are so long that if I were to review each…

  • Prof. Mark Davies’ ouster at BYU

    Mark Davies was a professor of linguistics at BYU who created tools for analyzing large collections of text, a method known as corpus analysis. He ran a website, corpus.byu.edu, where these text collections were available for anyone to use. The site, now at english-corpora.org, and Dr. Davies’ website, describe a process of administrator mismanagement that…

  • Decentralizing the Web… Again

    …cloud computing represents centralization of information and computing resources, which can be easily controlled by corporations and governments. [Jaeger, et al. Link] In the wake of Prismgate or the Snowden Affair or whatever we’re going to call this kerfuffle, I’ve been struck by how the current centralized nature of the World Wide Web has facilitated…